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University of Washington Students Create Anthrax Destroying Protein

Students from the University of Washington took home a first-place prize from an international genetic engineering competition for developing an anthrax destroying protein and engineering a type of E. coli that targets harmful bacteria. The team of undergraduates, led by doctorate students and faculty advisers, chose to engineer microbes with the intent of developing a Read More »

December 2, 2010
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Research
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Teaching biosecurity

In his keynote address delivered at the International Conference on Science and International Security: Addressing the Challenges of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism in Madrid on November 9, Sen. Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, stressed the need to expand the 20-year-old Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, which he and former Sen. Sam Nunn, Democrat of Read More »

December 2, 2010
| Filed under Research
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NIH Study Suggests Early Detection Is Possible For Prion Diseases

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A fast test to diagnose fatal brain conditions such as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans could be on the horizon, according to a new study from National Institutes of Health scientists. Researchers at NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have developed Read More »

December 2, 2010
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, and Research
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New prion discovery reveals drug target for mad cow disease and related illnesses

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) The joy of a juicy hamburger could make a comeback thanks a new discovery by scientists from the University of Kentucky. In a new research report in the December 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists found that a protein our body uses to break up blood Read More »

December 1, 2010
| Filed under North America, Public Health, and Research
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New Findings Detail How Virus Prepares To Infect Cells

(Purdue University) Researchers have learned the atomic-scale arrangement of proteins in a structure that enables a virus to invade and fuse with host cells, showing precisely how the structure morphs with changing acidity to initiate infection.